The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-04-15

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! information for presenting his views
and for scrutinizing the proposals
/ of the Government. Among its most in
| sulting and exasperating prOposals-the
worst ever submitted to Parliament-was
| the provision that Irish trials should be
| held in London. He never knew of such
a blow at the national feeling of Ireland.
| The Government could devise nothing
more likely to aggravate every existing
| trouble as to the permanent duration of
| this bill The proposals made ones blood
/ boil. To establish what was formerly only
/ a temporary remedy as a permanent rule
/ of the existence of society in Ireland
would put the brand of inferiority upon
! Ireland forever, recognizing as a fixed
| principle that force was remedy. The
| lessons of many Irish troubles showed
| that force was no remedy. Since the
! election of 1885 the bulk of the Liberals
| had judged it both right and safe to grant
! them home rule, and Ireland had been
free from crime and outrage, condi-
! ton long unknown. Why was thisP
! Because the Irish people knew what
large, though insufficiently large, body
/ of legislators represented their inter
! ests and would abide by them to the last.
| If the Liberals acceded to the appeals of
! Government the result would be retro
| gression; the Irish people would return
to the state of things which the Liberals
! efforts had already partly removed So
! long as Ireland continued in her present
course of moderation, so long would the
| Liberals be bound to perSevere in their en-
deavOr to assist her. The time would
soon come when to the many now sup
porting the cause of Ireland would be
added many more, when deplorable pro-
posals such as these of the Government
would no more be associated with the
name of Ireland, and when it would be
seen that in doing what they could now to
serve the Irish cause they were serving the
! cause of the wide empire of Great Britain
Prolonged cheering
Goschen tainted Gladstone with his al
lance with the National League He
asked him how he would continue to meet
the Leagues constantly increasing de-
mands until absolute separation should be
completed. Everybody but the allies of
the League considered the state of Ireland
intolerable.
upon as an effective exposure of the feeble
ness of the Governments reasons for de-
handing coercion. The strength of his
reasoning is admitted by the Conservatives
and felt keenly by the Liberal Unionists,
many of whom have threatened to secede
unless the Coercion bill be reduced to a
simple provision against boycotting and
the plan of campaign. Conservatives
already talk of dropping the proposals re-
latlng to the transfer of jury trials. Es-
pecially will the Unionist papers in the
provinces declare them untenable
Gladstone renewed his defiance of the
Governments attempt to enforce the
closure. The GladstOnians are confident |
that they can delay the passage of the bill
until May, and in the meanwhile are hope
full that the evolution of events will over
throw the whole scheme. The whips on |
each side have forbidden members to be |
absent during the holidays, unless paired |
The Radical societies throughout the |
country are passing resolutions against |
the Coercion bill, pronouncing it impolitic !
and unjust. The English Radical press
denounces the measure in language of |
passionate Indignation.
ParneIl's Appeal to the American
People.
LINCOLN (Neb.) March 29th.-The fol-
lowing cablegram from ParneI was re-
ceived by Hon. John Fitzgerald today
and suitable reply was sent to Parnell:
House OF COMMONS,
LONDON, March %, 1875
To Hon. John Fitzgerald, Lincoln, Neb.
The Coercion bill proposed tonight in the
House of Commons is the eighty
since the Act of Union, eighty-seven years
ago. 1t is also the most stringent, tyran-
meal and uncalled for by the state of af-
fairs in ireland. Never before has a Coer-
cion bill been proposed when crime was so
rapidly decreasing as compared with pre-
vlous years. The measure is aimed against
all open agitation, and appears to be ex-
pressly designed for driving discomfort be-
meath the surface. 1t places all public
speakers, writer's and conductors of news
papers absolutely at the mercy of stipend
lary magistrates, holding their office at the
pleasure of the Crown 1t consigns the
lrIsh-speaking peasant of rack-rented
Kerry to the tender mercies of packed
Jury of Orangemen or landlords, or to
VI dG the OIQ BaIioV
London. The Liberal party, headed by
stands as one man against this
measure, and will fight shoulder to shout
Ter with us in opposing it to the last. It
seems impossible to believe that even the
present House of Commons will continue
% follow the Tory Government in their
mad course, and good judges consider that !,
he measure will be the wreck and ruin of
he Cabinet. We must, however, prepare $
or the worst; and 1 confidently appeal to
he American people for that sympathy 6
md support which they have never with
leld from people struggling for liberty.
c: S. PARNELL s
determined opposition to the Coercion :
I'LL has been developed by this appeal, and c
he Tory Government has aroused a spirit l
t hostility among all classes of American s
itizens. I
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